While Screen Australia's logo appears on the teaser and the film's promotional art, the film does not appear among the organisation's upcoming projects, nor is it listed as being funded by the organisation, despite industry site IMDB listing an estimated budget of $US30 million. Screen Australia declined to comment.

After all, there was something damn suspicious about the trailer coming out of nowhere. No one had seen any Variety notice about it, it just popped up. And it doesn't really make sense to think Danny McBride kept the filming of what would be a major sequel under his hat for so long. It's unlikely anyone would be so secretive about a real movie.

Danny McBride, lying to us all

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That's it, then. We can put away our dreams of a McBride and Hemsworth buddy comedy, of them having great adventures communing with koalas and beating bad guys to death with boomerangs and didgeridoos.

We'll only see Dundee: The Son of a Legend in our dreams. Or in a commercial break during the Super Bowl.